Work Package 4

Work Package 4 - Knowledge Base Design and Implementation (Mantis)

Product Backlog of WP7

The product backlog itself is implemented in the issue tracker of this repository

Objectives

The primary objective of this WP is to provide the Knowledge Base component (data structures and services) of the ModelWriter platform.

This objective is broken down into the following sub-objectives

• To design and implement the ModelWriter’s federated Knowledge Base itself, hosting multiple formalisms.
• To design and implement its bi-directional text-model synchronization mechanism.
• To design and implement its API.
• To design and implement a set of specialised modules (plug-ins) that exploit the Knowledge Base in ways that make the tasks of Technical Authors much more productive, e.g. consistency checks.
• To design and implement the collaborative functions linking and hierarchically organizing multiple ModelWriter KBs used by different Technical Authors on different sites.

Expected Results

• A Federated Knowledge Base and its API.
• The Intent-based bi-directional synchronization mechanism (between text and models within a KB).
• An initial set of plug-ins providing high added value services.
  • Plug-in #1 – This provides consistency and completeness checks within the same software lifecycle document, allowing automatic quality review of the content (meaning).
  • Plug-in #2 – This provides consistency and completeness checks between related set of documents and incl. check for compliance to a software engineering standard (such as the ECSS-E-ST-40C used in the space industry).
  • Plug-in #3 – This provides semantic comparison between two versions of the same software lifecycle document (i.e. what conceptual changes have happened).
• The synchronization mechanism organizing a hierarchy of distributed & collaborating Technical Authors.